Middle Grade Character Studies

I was recently working on some character studies geared towards middle grade. The characters were *almost* 12 years old.

I’ve mostly worked on younger Picture Book age characters before, so there was some testing to do. In the image below, you will see my three rounds of sketches for the main character. The sketch on the right was the first one. She looks a little too old – about 16. The sketch on the left was my second attempt. She looks a little too young – about 7 years old. The one on the middle was my third attempt. She is just right – *almost* 12.

Once the characters were done, I moved on to color samples. Once the characters were done, I moved on to color samples. Again, I was trying a new thing for this age group, so I tried flat colors with no texture. I played with Photoshop, and then with Acrylics. I like how soft the colors look on my Photoshop test. What do you think?

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